'Mayhem' before teen's death

The Notre Dame Academy track star found dead in her bed had fought off an attacker the previous night in Willowbrook Park at a kegger dubbed the "Nights of Mayhem"-- a raucous, underage party hyped on the Internet and in school halls, a friend told the Advance. "Someone grabbed her and pushed her face in the mud," the teen said, noting he got a call about the purported attack an hour after the Police and Fire departments had routed the pre-Easter revelers at midnight Monday. "She kicked him in the [genitals]." Apparently, 17-year-old Arielle Newman had gotten separated from her group as they fled into the woods. She eventually made her way home. About 12 hours later, Arielle's mother found her dead; pending toxicology and tissue tests to determine the cause of death could take several weeks. Arielle had been one of about 100 teens gathered near the Carousel for All Children in Willowbrook Park to drink beer from two kegs and, in a few cases, take painkillers. Afterward, some photos of teens drinking and hoisting a keg in the air showed up briefly on the social networking site facebook.com. "It was so big -- they made it into an event," the anonymous friend said.